Édouard Baldus
La Ciotat. Bec de l'Aigle.

ArtistFrench, born Prussia, 1813–1889
CultureFrench
Titles
  • La Ciotat. Bec de l'Aigle.
  • "The Eagle's Beak," La Ciotat
Datec. 1860
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 13 1/8 × 16 15/16 in. (33.3 × 43 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/8 × 16 15/16 in. (33.3 × 43 cm)
Mount: 18 1/16 × 23 13/16 in. (45.9 × 60.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, the Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.252
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

This dramatic rock formation alongside the small port of
La Ciotat on the Côte d’Azure was one of several landscapes at the end of a
photographic album tracing the railroad line from Lyon to Marseilles and along the
Mediterranean coast. At a time when some worried that the expanding railroad network
was homogenizing regional cultures and spoiling the landscape, Baldus’s album—commissioned
by the railroad company—blended images of viaducts, tunnels, and stations with
Gothic cathedrals, Roman ruins, and the natural landscape, linking Second
Empire engineers with the great builders of the past and celebrating newly
accessible features of the natural world.




Provenance[Léon Herschtritt, Paris]; purchased by Manfred Heiting, April 23, 1992; given to MFAH, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black, recto, bottom left under image: LA CIOTAT. BEC DE L,AIGLE

[no verso inscriptions]
There is no evident signature.

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La Ciotat. Bec de l'Aigle.
Édouard Baldus
c. 1861
Albumen silver print from paper negative
2020.172.63
La Ciotat.
Édouard Baldus
c. 1861
Albumen silver print from paper negative
2020.172.62
Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée
Édouard Baldus
1853–1864, assembled 1860s
Album of 69 albumen silver prints from glass or paper negatives
2020.172.1-.69
Viaduc de la Voulte.
Édouard Baldus
1861 or after
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.172.18
Pont de la Mulatiere.
Édouard Baldus
c. 1861
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.172.5
Pont de la Mulatiere.
Édouard Baldus
c. 1861
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.172.4
La Voulte.
Édouard Baldus
1861
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.172.16
Gare de Boulogne, Côté de Paris
Édouard Baldus
1855
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2004.240
Avignon. Palais des Papes.
Édouard Baldus
1859 or after
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.172.28
Lyon. Gare de Perrache.
Édouard Baldus
c. 1861
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.172.3
Lyon. Hôtel de Ville.
Édouard Baldus
c. 1861
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.172.2
Palais de Justice, Paris
Édouard Baldus
1858–1860
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2004.235